Apparatus for waving hair



Dec. 4, 1956 J. A.V SWENSON ETAL APPARATUS FOR WAVING HAIR Original Filed June 27, 1951 F/GJ INVENTORS JAMES A SWENSON W/LL/AM ,5 BUR/v5 RICHARD H STE/10 United States Patent APPARATUS FOR WAVING HAIR James A. Swanson, Waltharn, William E. Burns, Norfolk, and Richard H. Stead, Revere, Mass.

Application June 27, 1951, Serial No. 233,818, now Patent No. 2,648,340, dated August 11, 1953, which is a division of application Serial No. 117,597, September 24, 1949, now Patent No. 2,584,760, dated February 5, 1952. Divided and this application March 12, 1953, Serial No. 341,904

3 Claims. (Cl. 132-40) This application is a division of our co-pending application, Serial No. 233,818, filed June 27, 1951, now Patent No. 2,648,340, dated Aug. 11, 1953, which itself is a division of our application Serial No. 117,597, filed September 24, 1949, and now Patent No. 2,584,760, dated February 5, 1952.

This invention relates to improved apparatus for the waving of human hair and more particularly to apparatus which is intended to impart what is known as a permanent wave to the hair.

In order that the principle of the invention will be readily understood, we have disclosed two embodiments thereof in the accompanying drawing wherein:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of one embodiment of the invention wherein the two parts of the curler are represented as separated from each other;

Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the main or body member shown in Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. l but showing the head portions provided with longitudinally extending channels or grooves.

In the embodiment of the invention shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 the main or body member 48 is of solid form with longitudinally extending ridges. At opposite ends of the said main or body member 48 are heads 39 having, in the case of the construction shown in Fig. 3, longitudinally extending channels or grooves 40. Each head portion 39 in Fig. 1 has only a shallow recess therein. The co-operating member, indicated generally at 51 in both Figs. 1 and 3, is shown as separated from the main or body member 48. It is of elongated bow-shape or flattened-arc shape with opposite inwardly-extending knobs or enlargements 52, 53 which, when the co-operating members are positioned, engage the shallow recesses respectively in the head portions 39.

Moreover, in Fig. 3 the co-operating member 51 is provided at both end portions thereof with thin, straight edges 54, 55 to engage the longitudinally extending channels or grooves 40 of the head portions 39 in said figure.

Thus the construction permits the co-operating member 51 to be turned end for end, if desired, in both constructions.

The embodiment of the invention shown in Figs. 1 and 2 is generally similar to that shown in Fig. 3, excepting that both the head portions 39 are desirably provided with an annular series of serrations or teeth 56, 57.

In the construction shown in Fig. 1, at each end of the co-operating member 51 there are provided short, narrow, straight edges 58, 59, which engage the serrations or notches 56, 57, in the main or body member 48. In the construction shown in Fig. 3 the co-operating member 51 is provided near its ends with the horizontal, straight, narrow edges 54, 55, which respectively engage selected channels or grooves 40 of the heads 50. In both cases, rotative movement of the two members is therefore prevented.

In using the embodiment of the invention shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the hair is wound upon the main or body 2,772,681 Patented Dec. 4, 1956 "Ice member 48 and after being completely wound, the cooperating member 51 is positioned with its opposite ends received in the recesses at the ends of the main or body member 48, being held in position in the case of the embodiment shown in Fig. 3 by the longitudinally extending channels or grooves 40 of the head portions 39, and, in the case of the embodiment shown in Figs. 1 and 2, by the serrations or notches 56, 57 at both ends of the main or body member.

While the parts of the two embodiments of the invention may be formed of any suitable material, they are desirably formed of some suitable flexible material such as plastic. Also desirably, in each embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, the two parts of the device are made in contrasting colors, such as red and white, or any other contrasting colors.

It will be noted that in the embodiments of the invention shown the co-operating member is of bow-shape or elongated-arc shape, to engage the main or body member only at or adjacent to the end portions thereof. In both forms of the invention the two members are locked or held together with the hair curled between them.

Having thus described two embodiments of the invention, it is to be understood that although specific terms are employed, they are used in a generic and descriptive sense, and not for purposes of limitation, the scope of the invention being set forth in the following claims.

We claim:

1. A hair-waving curler consisting of a main or body member of elongated form and a wholly structurally separate cooperating second member, also of elongated form for positioning in generally parallel laterally spaced relation on and along the body member in end engagement therewith, said body member having at each end an enlarged head with a longitudinal outwardly open socket, and the cooperating second member having opposed reversely inwardly directed rounded knobs receivable in the head sockets of the body member to effect said mutual positioning of the two members, and said two members each having at the respective ends mutually cooperable holding formations for restraining the body member from rotative movement about a longitudinal axis and relative to the second member, said formations comprising a series of elongate recesses distributed circumferentially about such longitudinal aXis of the body member upon the surface of each of the heads thereof, together with jutting edge formations on the second member adjacent the respective knobs thereof and adapted for interlocking rotation-restraining engagement with any opposite recess of the series thereof on the corresponding head of the body member.

2. A hair-waving curler according to claim 1 wherein the recesses of the body member are radially disposed at the end faces of the body member heads.

3. A hair-waving curler according to claim 1 wherein the recesses of the body member are longitudinally disposed around the lateral surface of the body member heads.

References Cited in the tile of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,243,173 Smalley May 27, 1941 2,584,760 Swenson et a1. Feb. 5, 1952 FOREIGN PATENTS 686,668 France Apr. 15, 1930 38,490 France Mar. 9, 1931 (Addition to No. 686,668) 996,498 France Dec. 19, 1951 

